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Boris Johnson’s administration plans to push through new government procurement rules by the end of the year, replacing what it sees as excessively “complex†procedures it was tied to in the European Union.
Bills on procurement and state aid will be included in the Queen’s Speech on Tuesday in Parliament, people familiar with the matter said. The annual event will see the monarch lay out the government’s core legislative program — usually around 25 bills — for the next year. Johnson has hailed diverging from EU rules as a key benefit of Brexit, by giving the government more freedom to decide how it supports the economy and reducing red tape.
Bolstered by last week’s local elections, the prime minister is now trying to deliver on that promise, after focus shifted to the pandemic soon after the divorce from the bloc was concluded. Brexit provides a “golden opportunity to redesign the procurement rules in the interests of the UK,†he said.